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t1mpani

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Where people could appreciate my new, huge choppy thing. :) Not H.I., but I don't feel bad, as it's currently sitting next to two recently aquired khuks. Anyway, I was screwing around on Ebay and when I saw this I knew it wasn't even worth fighting it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6543196591&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEWN:IT&rd=1

Arrived today and I am absolutely thrilled with it. It's actually in better shape than it seems in the pictures. Handle scales are in excellent shape--no cracks and no pulling away from the tang. The "pits" he refers to look like forging marks to me, though it doesn't really matter either way. Its patina will inhibit new rust and just gives it character. Edge needs some serious work, but that's easily remedied. Blade thickness is right around 5/16" and it stays at full thickness through the whole length and height, right down to when it plunges into the edge grind.

Anyway, I have no need for it, but it's old and it's huge and it will soon be sharp. In other words, it is well with my soul. ;)
 
After that recent cleaver thread, I was watching that one, too. Nice snag.

Brian
 
Good snag!!!! :cool: That is what is commonly known as a Beef Splitter and was used back when to do just that. They're smaller ones that are known as Sheep Splitters.;) :D

Edit:
Some of those old antiques can be quite collectable and worth a bit as well. They have their own small band of knowledgeable folks who value them pretty highly.
The best ones are marked with the manufacturer's name.
 
Sweet! What time do you want usall to show up for the cutting demo and barbeque?

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that thing is awesome:) I want one.
It reminds me of this crappy old horror/slasher movie i saw from the 1980's. It had something to do with promiscuous teens, i'm sure. However, this one took place at or near a home-grown meat processing set up. The villian used a cleaver pretty much exactly like that one, only it had a hogs leg as the handle. Horrible movie, but i'll never forget that kid-splitter:)

Jake
 
Nasty said:
Sweet! What time do you want usall to show up for the cutting demo and barbeque?

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He who brings the cow (and cabbage) names the date. ;)

Yes it is rather horror movie-ish. My friend was reminded of a character from an the old game "Diablo" named The Butcher. Was one of the earliest (and therefore weakest) bosses you fought in the game, but also probably the coolest and scariest. I may have to dig through my old computer desk to see if I can play that for old time's sake...with the cleaver 'cross my lap, of course. :)

Edit: Yvsa, you know--when I first hauled it out of the box I held it out at arm's length and thought "Rotator-cuff splitter." :D
 
Aah! Fresh Meat! -The Butcher, Diablo

I still play Diablo once in a while. My current B.net character is Nair[NAKEDMAGE] Easily one of the top 10 games ever written.
 
Shades of the Chicago Stockyards.

In the early 1860s, there were only a couple of small livestock dealers in Chicago, mainly to satisfy local demands. But with the arrival of railroads in the early 1860s, Chicago quickly developed into an important hub connecting the East and West. As in Europe, railroads offered a viable alternative to the treacherous shipment of goods over water. Yet, railroads required the centralization of markets. Thus, several of the existing hog companies decided to unite their operations in an effort to accommodate railroad tech-nology and in the hope of creating a large profitable livestock market that would upstage Cincinnati. Consequently, on Christmas Day 1865, the Union Stockyards and Transit Company was founded on the South Side of Chicago. Within a few years, and especially after the arrival of Philip Armour and Gustavus Swift in 1875, Chicago devel-oped into a leading market for meatpacking. Whereas in the 1850s only about 20,000 hogs were slaughtered annually, by the mid- 1870s, the number had climbed to more than three million. By the beginning of the 20th century, an average of 13 million animals came through the stockyards each year. Undoubtedly, Chicago had turned into the largest producer of meat in the United States and possibly the world. La Villette fed Paris, but Chicago supplied the nation.

In 19th-century Europe, livestock, for the most part, was still painstakingly raised in small herds, while in the US large herds grew with minimum effort on the prairie. The stockyards were built for large herds that were kept in open-air cattle holding pens rather than stables. As slaughter facilities had to match this capacity, industrial efficiency became a key factor. New tech-nologies of slaughter were constantly invented and old ones improved. One such invention was the refrigerated rail car, which enabled the transport of fresh meat. However, the most important of these inventions was the two-story disassembly line. Invented in Cincinnati but perfected in Chicago, the disassembly line gave Henry Ford his ideas for a prototype for car production. It con-sisted of an overhead rail system by which animals were hoisted and moved through compartmentalized workstations, where one man would slit the animal's throat, another would tear off its hide, a third split the carcass, and on and on until the dressed carcass was hoisted into a rail car and sent on its way to consumers. With this process it took less than twenty-four hours from the moment an animal arrived until it was sold at the market, slaughtered, dressed, and shipped off as meat. This disassembly-style production enabled the stunning mechanization of slaughter, but it could not supplant manual labor completely. The individuality of animal bodies prevented the standardization of slaughter, which up to this day—despite technological sophistication—still often requires the human hand and its flexibility with a knife.

Edit: Another industrial cleaver from Chgo stkyrds.

http://www.chicagohs.org/history/stockyard/stock4.html
 
Yvsa said:
There are Zombie Cows? :eek:
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never underestimate the power of the zombie cow!

picture linky

there are 10 pages of links on a google search for 'zombie cow'

including the movie! (name= dead meat!)

movie review

i'd think it may be a good idea to stock up on them BIG kukhri's used to dispatch sacrificial animals in nepal, as well as a few of them beef splitters - do they come in a gasoline engine powered model? seems them zombies have gotten loose in the food chain!
 
Bruise,
If they had the tool in hand I bet they could convince people to buy. ;)

Larry,
Don't think the thought hasn't crossed my mind. :D
 
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